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CONDITION: Exceptionally fine overall with bright gold, smooth French
gray with minor oxidation and patination, crisp carving, a few very slight
flakes, and minor overall age and storage related wear. Mechanically
excellent. The case has a crack across the lid but is otherwise fine with
minor storage wear, and the accessories are generally very fine with bright
gold and minimal wear.
B) Geerinckx Percussion Pistol - NSN, 45 cal., 9 1/2 inch octagon bbl.,
gold/gray finish, ebony stock. As described in “A.”
CONDITION: Exceptionally fine overall with bright gold, smooth French
gray, crisp carving, and minor overall age and storage related wear
including some slight patination and oxidation and very faint flakes on the
stock. Mechanically excellent. Overall, this is an extraordinary presentation
cased pair of exhibition quality elaborately gold inlaid Parisian dueling
pistols from Geerinckx made all the more desirable by their historical
presentation inscribed case indicating presentation by the French
government to British Colonel Hebert Taylor Siborne.
Provenance: Colonel Herbert Taylor Siborne; Sergeant-Major William
Herbert Siborne; The Henry Brace Collection; Private Collection.
Estimate: 45,000 - 70,000